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The Great Western is lucky to get the Heathrow link as well as crossrail, as time goes on it will only be about adding more services to Crossrail , got to use those terminating services for something after all!

Crossrail will provide plenty of capacity for the GWML well into the 2020's and considering political realities there are plenty of other corridors that will want billions spending on it. So in reality I don't think anyone will even a whisper a thing till till the end of the 2020's. I...

There plans floating around for a fifth track between Langley and Southall. Not sure if it got anywhere though. I think the idea was to separate the freight for as much as possible. Realistically that is all that is going to happen along with the new western access to Heathrow. At some point...

1st you need Crossrail 2, then a new express tunnel from Wimbledon to Woking and then as far congestion on the existing line justifies. A new express line as far as Southampton seems justified. There is talk of reviving the old SWML express route around Southampton, with a new line going...

To be fair, considering how infrastructure is built in this country, it could have been another 20 years before it was built. It's lucky that the government has decided to devolve to local level some transport spending and allow other moneys to be put towards schemes that promote growth.

The problem those areas don't deserve the same level of spending on public transport. London is a mega city in the centre of a densely populated region, with very high commuter flows. London decided not demolish most of its inner city and inner suburbs to build motorways in the 60''s and 70's...

Look google cars would be great, but they are not going to make roads magically hold more cars. Cars will still need to leave enough space for other road users, plus these cars will still run off the same fuel, whether they are automated or not. They won't be magically faster either. They would...

Forget the level crossing thats not going to be a problem. Borden to the South West of Farnham is expected to get several thousand new houses and it is proposed to build a small rail spur to link it to the rail network. It is also expected that there will be a new Bypass for the road from Borden...

I read in Modern Railways that they are looking to reuse an old station building an build two terminating platforms for the IEP's. Also they are looking to four track from Filton to Temple Meads (when that actually happens I can't remember. There could be an extra station added at Ashley Hill...

Modern rail seemed to imply that the Northern Line Stock is staying and the extension will get some Northern 'Clone' Stock.

Some interesting articles in Modern Rail this month. Two relevant to London are the new tube for London. It turns out that while TFL were broadly happy with financial settlement, it was not what they were hoping for a few years ago. As a consequence the deep tube project will take longer to...

Oops it turns out they were sort of wrong. according to Modern Rail. The new deep tube trains will have no driver cab, but will have DLR style train captains.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7021

Sorry transport infrastructure does stimulate growth, we have 200 years of evidence to show this. Making travel to the Island cheaper, easier and not subject to the weather would increase the numbers of people traveling and therefore dtimulate growth. More tourists would mean mean more shops...

It would quite simple to build a bridge West of Gunard as the Solent is shallow and narrower there. It would not be madness it would transform the economy of the Island. The coastal resorts would have much longer seasons and no longer have to rely on the slim pickings of coachloads of pensioners...

Yes Musk is also known to be anti HSR, and he assumes to beuild viaducts and tunnels at one tenth the cost of conventional rail bridges. These are smaller capsules, but they are not feather light and these viaducts need to support the steel tube as well.

No one minds too many changes on the tube as you know you'll only have to wait a 5 minutes at most for another train. It sort of still works if both services are half hourly, but you know with your luck, you'll just miss the connection and have to wait half an hour. But when you require more...

A road bridge on the West side of the Island is very practical, it's as you say not politically popular on the Island, by those people who like the Island isolated. Meanwhile tourism is stunted by high ferry prices and the inconvenience in travel, as a consequence most of the seaside town...

Finding full time employment on the Island has always been tough even during the recent boom. The Island always has a history of it's young leaving to find permanent work on the Mainland. But you be snide if you wish too.

As a person who has family on the Island, it most certainly is for all sorts of reasons. 1. The car ferry is very expensive. Over a £100 return most times you'd actually want to travel. Personally this means I can't afford to visit my family that often. But more importantly it really stunts...